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AmblesideOnline: This Country of Ours

This Country of Ours by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall is available online from Project Gutenberg or by section at Celebration of Women Writers. Also available for your Kindle from manybooks.net or to purchase. The dates and snippets are for parent's reference and planning purposes. Another history text, A History for Peter by Gerald Johnson, has a similar content listing here to help you plan your school year. Asterisked chapters are longer and might need to be split into two readings. (Where minutes are given, they are an estimation of how long it might take to read that chapter aloud; they are included for your planning purposes.)

Year 2 Term 1
week 5: ch 1. How the Vikings of Old Sought And Found New Lands (1000 A.D.; 3276 words; half; can be substituted with Lief the Lucky by D'Aulaire)

Year 2 Term 3
week 33: ch 2. The Sea of Darkness And the Great Faith of Columbus (1435-1506 convincing the king; 2142 words; can be substituted with Columbus by D'Aulaire)
week 34: ch 3. How Columbus Fared Forth Upon the Sea of Darkness And Came To Pleasant Lands Beyond (1492 San Salvador; 2166 words; can be substituted with Columbus by D'Aulaire)
week 35: ch 4. How Columbus Returned in Triumph (1493-1506 four trips, no colonies; 2142 words; can be substituted with Columbus by D'Aulaire)
week 36: ch 5. How America Was Named (1507 Amerigo Vespucci; 1404 words; 10 min)

Year 3 Term 1
week 2: ch 6. How the Flag of England Was Planted on the Shores of the New World (1497 John Cabot; 1210 words; 9 min)
week 4: ch 7. How the Flag of France Was Planted in Florida (1562 Reformation in Europe; 2586 words; 18 min* half)
week 6: ch 8. How the French Founded a Colony in Florida (1564 Ribault; 4570 words (longest ch); 32 min** thirds; half)
week 8: ch 9. How the Spaniards Drove the French Out of Florida (Catholics massacre Lutherans; 3555 words; 24 min** half)
week 10: ch 10. How a Frenchman Avenged the Death of His Countrymen (1567 Lutheran payback; 1656 words; 13 min)
week 12: ch 11. The Adventures of Sir Humphrey Gilbert (1583 he is lost at sea, no colony; 1652 words; 12 min)